News Media Clippings
2012
- Rocky Mountain Institute: The UCSD Microgrid — Showing the future of electricity ... today
- U-T San Diego: Aquarium celebrates 20 years with cut rates
2011
- New York Times: In San Diego, mulling the second life of E.V. battery
- Intelligent Utility: Solar forecasting and microgrids: It’s all about balance on the ‘island’
- Electric Light and Power: Solar forecasting? Next big thing in sun-based power?
- ABC 12: Blue ribbon task force on climate remediation releases report calling for federal geo-engineering research program
- Business Fleet: The EV Experience: Nissan Leaf drivers speak out
- Stormwater: Holistic Watershed Management for Sustainable Ocean Protection
- National Journal: Biden: Bad economy right time to invest in clean energy
- Business Week: The Sierra Club ranks “coolest” schools
- Huffington Post: The greenest colleges: Sierra Magazine list
- San Diego Union-Tribune: UCSD ranks near top of green college list
- Mountain Xpress: Warren Wilson ranks fourth in Sierra Magazine’s list of “coolest school”
- Mother Nature Network: America’s greenest college: University of Washington
- UC Newsroom: 6 campuses among Sierra mag’s greenest colleges
- ABC 33-40: Sierra Magazine announces the nation’s “coolest” schools
- Greentech Media: Sierra Magazine announces the nation’s “coolest” schools
- Appalachian State University News: Appalachian named one of America’s top 20 “coolest” schools by Sierra magazine
- Washington Business Journal: University of Maryland a top ‘cool schoool’ for green efforts
- La Jolla Light: UCSD ranks third in Sierra Club’s green schools list
- Alternative Consumer: Top 10 Greenest Schools for 2011
- Stock Rants: Sierra Magazine announces the nation’s “coolest” schools
- The Street: Sierra Magazine announces the nation’s coolest schools
- NBC San Diego: UCSD Ranks Third in Sustainability: Report
- San Diego Daily Transcript: UCSD Professor Critiques Fuel Efficiency Regulations
- The Atlantic: The Secret Air-Conditioning Power of Solar Energy
- Korea IT Times: Solar Panels Keep Buildings Cool
- Petroleum World: What’s Killing Carbon Capture?
- Intelligent Utility: Big Picture Thinking — Lab to Market!
- Bloomberg: Carbon Capture Hopes Dim as AEP Says It Got Burned at Coal Plant
- Dalje.com: Solar Panels Provide Cool Extra Benefit
- U.S. News: Solar Panels Keep Buildings Cool
- Sustainability: The Journal of Record: Green Living: Why Invest in a Deep Green Residence Hall?
- The New York Times: New Southwest Factories to Make Advanced Solar Panels
- R&D Magazine: Biomedical Research Facility Designed to LEED Platinum Standards
- Environment News Service: Stormwater Runoff Under Control at San Diego Surfing Beach
- Go Green Radio: UC San Diego Leads the Way in Campus Sustainability
- iStock Analyst: Refurbished Solar Panels Greener Than Thought
- Becker’s ASC Review: UCSD to Use Nitrous Oxide in Place of More Harmful Gases
- Intelligent Utility: The Future Grid: A Seamless Ebb and Flow of Supply and Demand
- Sacramento Business Journal: SDG&E Outlines Plan for Region's Smart Grid Future
- Lab Manager Magazine: Potent Greenhouse Gas Eliminated from Routine Safety Test at UC San Diego
- North County Times blogs: UCSD Claims Victory in Greenhouse Gas Reductions
- R&D Magazine: Accelerating Renewable Energy Research at UC San Diego
- News Blaze: UC San Diego First California University
- Waste Management World: Gold Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System for Sustainability
- New York Times: Exploring Roots of Climate Stasis, and Next Steps
- San Diego Union-Tribune: UCSD Offers Roadmap for Coping with Climate Change
- Electrical Solutions: Occupancy Sensors Yield Energy Savings
- San Diego Metropolitan Magazine: UCSD Student Engineers to Develop Solar Tree on Wheels
- Industry Visions: Viridity Energy CEO a Featured Speaker at KEMA Utility of the Future Leadership Forum 2011
- San Diego Union-Tribune: UCSD Holding Clean Innovation Conference Thursday
- CNET News: Building GE’s Ecomagination “Ecosystem” (Q&A)
- Design Boom: Valerio Dewalt Train: Rita Atkinson Residences at the University of California
- Reuters: Analysis — Green Claims of Diesel Cars Disputed
- Power-Gen Worldwide: Gas Flaring — Colossal Waste
- R&D Magazine: NREL Team Investigates Secondary Uses for Electric Drive Vehicle Batteries
- The Engineer: Compressed Air Energy Storage Has Bags of Potential
- Oil Voice: Five Percent of World’s Natural Gas Wasted, GE Report Says
- KUSI News: Mount Trashmore Aims to Educate Students
- La Jolla Village News: Earth Day Feature: La Jolla’s Green Gurus
- Scientific Computing: Occupancy Sensors Curb Energy Consumption
- San Diego Union-Tribune: Green Car or Gas Guzzler? How Do You Decide?
- San Diego Union-Tribune: Methane-to-Power Project Begins
- World Interior Design Network: Construction Begins on UCSD Health Sciences Biomedical Research Facility
- iStockAnalyst: Viridity to Help Military Reduce Electric Costs
- Vision Magazine: Reaching Greener Heights: Building Sustainability Lifestyles at UC San Diego
- San Diego Union-Tribune: UCSD Shows Its Greenability
- Car Talk: Student Greens Let the Sunshine in for Campus EV Charging
- Plugin Cars: Ready and Waiting for Electric Vehicles in San Diego
- EIN News: Swinerton Celebrates Topping Out of LEED Gold Project at UCSD
- La Jolla Light: Community Leader’s View: Join UCSD at the Green Open House
- San Diego Union-Tribune: Green Open House at UCSD on Saturday
- San Diego Union-Tribune: UCSD to Show How to Be Green
- ArcHello: University of California San Diego — North Campus Housing
- Nano Werk: Engineers Use Nanotechnology to Develop More Efficient Fuel Cells
- Fuel Cell Works: More Efficient Fuel Cell Applications via Nanotechnology
- PhysOrg: Test of Building Smart Sensors Yield Big Energy Savings
- Global Investor: Tree Campus USA Continues to Expand Throughout U.S.; Arbor Day Foundation, Toyota to Mark the Growth by Holding Tree-Planting Events on Four Campuses
- Daily Markets: Tree Campus USA Continues to Expand Throughout U.S.; Arbor Day Foundation, Toyota to Mark the Growth by Holding Tree-Planting Events on Four Campuses
- Technology Review: Praying for an Energy Miracle
- San Diego Union-Tribune: The architect behind UCSD’s new uber-green housing
- Wards Auto: Outlook for biofuels, EV-charging infrastructure dim
- Biorefining Magazine: Singapore biofuels event features algae expert Stephen Mayfield
- The Climate Project: An Inconvenient Truth presented by Miranda Ko
- Xconomy: Concentrix Solar to Build San Diego Plant
- San Diego Union-Tribune: Big desert solar farm means big factory in San Diego
- La Jolla Light: Newest UCSD campus apartments immerse students in sustainability
- Electric Light and Power: UC San Diego Chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World Wins Solar Grant
- News Blaze: UC San Diego Chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World Wins Solar Grant
- Energy Daily: UC San Diego Campus Apartments Immerse Students in Sustainability
- All4Women: Parking lots of the future?
- The Green Faction: Green living on campus — UCSD
- Alternative Energy HQ: Green living on campus — UCSD
- San Diego Newscape: Newest UC San Diego campus apartments immerse students in sustainability
- Sacramento Bee: Aztec Solar finishes UC San Diego project
- Earth Techling: Electric vehicles targeted by San Diego
- Distributed Energy: Harnessing heat
- San Diego Union-Tribune: City's collaboration could pioneer energy solutions
- CleanTechies: 10 reasons why San Diego is a cleantech leader
- Environment News Service: Stormwater Runoff Under Control at San Diego Surfing Beach
2010
- New York Times: A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning
- Energy Central: Clean Tech Generating More Jobs in San Diego
- Los Angeles Times: Fuel Cells Popping Up in California
- KPBS: Demand For ‘Green Majors’ at UCSD Outstrips Resources
- Sun Earth Energy Ltd.: 2.8 megawatt fuel cell in USA
- Physorg.com: 2.8-megawatt fuel cell to anchor Energy Innovation Park
- San Diego Daily Transcript: Construction begins on UCSD fuel cell
- Fleet Maintenance magazine: Two California universities win green fleet awards
- San Diego Union-Tribune: SDG&E Proposes Piping Methane Gas from Waste
- PE Hub: New Energy Capital Cleantech Infrastructure Fund Invests $23.5M in Fuel Cell Project
- IStock Analyst: Encinitas pair make sewage renewable
- Your Renewable News: New Energy Capital Invests in Largest U.S. Fuel Cell Project
- Solid Waste & Recycling: New Energy Capital Invests in Largest U.S. Fuel Cell Project
- Scottrade News & Commentary: New Energy Capital Invests in Largest U.S. Fuel Cell Project
- KPBS: UCSD 50 Years of Science Linked to Biotech Boom
- FuelCellsWorks: UCSD Is Partnering with Two Businesses to Build a Power Plant on Campus
- PennEnergy.com: On-site Fuel Cell-Based Power Across Southern California
- Grist: Why We Won't Have a Green Energy Revolution Without the Smart Grid
- The Hydrogen Journal: 4.5 MW of Fuel Cells for Wastewater Biogas in San Diego
- KPBS: San Diego Green Tech Gets $1 Million Grant
- Sustainable Business: FuelCell Energy Supplies 4.5MW for San Diego Biogas Project
- Power Online: FuelCell Energy to Supply 4.5 Megawatts of Power Plants for Renewable Directed Biogas Project in San Diego, California
- San Diego Reader: SDG&E and UCSD Are Not PG&E and San Bruno, We Hope
- Republican American: FuelCell Energy Sells 3 Power Plants to California Firm
- San Diego Union-Tribune: UCSD and city turning sewage gas to clean energy
- FuelCellsWorks: Calif leads domestic market for FuelCell Energy of Danbury
- Hartford Business Journal: FuelCell Energy to power San Diego area
- Quote.com: FuelCell Energy to Supply 4.5 Megawatts of Power Plants for Renewable Directed Biogas Project in San Diego, California Unique Solution for Generating Renewable Power
- San Diego Union-Tribune: Green Grades Are In for USD, UCSD
- Power Magazine: Smart Power Generation at UCSD
- San Diego Union-Tribune: Energy storage key to future of power grid
- Solar Magazine: CEC announced statewide energy program following judge's release of stimulus funds
- San Diego Union-Tribune: UCSD Power Plant’s Efficiency Gets EPA Kudos
- CNBC: UC San Diego Survey Reveals Green Jobs Offer Great Salaries and Promotion Potential
- Electric Light & Power EMerge Alliance Focuses on Energy Efficient Data Centers
- San Diego Union-Tribune: UCSD part of $1.6 million smart-grid grant
- Your Industry News: EMerge Alliance Advances DC Power Distribution Platform to Focus on Energy Efficient Data Centers
- Data Center Knowledge: Alliance Boosts 380-Volt DC Power Standard
- Display Plus: EMerge Alliance advances DC power distribution platform to focus on energy efficient data centers
- Scottrade News and Commentary: California Public Utilities Commission Awards Viridity Energy and University of California San Diego Grant to Optimize Solar Deployment on UCSD Campus Microgrid
- Electric Light & Power: Viridity Energy and the University of California San Diego Awarded $1.6 Million to Optimize Solar Deployment on UCSD Campus Microgrid
- EON Enhanced Onine News: EMerge Alliance Advances DC Power Distribution Platform to Focus on Energy Efficient Data Centers
- San Diego Union-Tribune: UCSD Snags Climate Award
- Second Nature: University of California San Diego Recognized for Climate Leadership
- Yahoo News: Interested in giving green the old college try? Greenopia updates its environmental sustainability ratings of 100 of the largest universities
- Electric Energy Online: UC San Diego Cuts Electricity Purchases 80 Percent During State Heat Wave
- Simple Recycling Solutions: Sustainability Paper Chase: UC San Diego Deploys Campus-Wide Recycled-Paper Plan
- San Diego Business Journal: $568 Million Worth of Buildings Going Up at UC San Diego
- U.S. Department of Energy: Quantum innovations in solar energy: Q&A With Byron Washom
- EnergyBiz Insider: Outperforming the Status Quo
- Electric Energy: UC San Diego Installs Energy Dashboard Saving the Campus Nearly $1M Annually
- AASHE: U California San Diego Implements Fair Trade Policy
- Fast Company: Former BP Exec Cynthia Warner Left Big Oil for Big Algae - And She's Not Alone
- Newsroom America: EPA Honors Three Universities for Significant Energy Savings
- San Diego County News: UC San Diego wins Environmental Protection Agency award
- Environmental Design & Construction: EPA Honors Three Universities for Energy Savings
- Electric Light & Power: EPA Honors Three Universities for Significant Energy Savings
- TakePart.com: EPA Awards Three Universities for Going Green
- International Business Times: Sanyo joins with UC San Diego to develop smart energy systems
- Scientific American: San Diego Vaults into Solar Energy and Green Jobs Future
- San Diego Daily Transcript: EDSA stands on forefront of power grid transformation
- Japan Today: Sanyo to test solar power system with cloud cameras in U.S.
- San Diego Union-Tribune: UCSD engineers, Sanyo to work on solar power
- Asahi Shimbun: Sanyo and UCSD Sign Multi-Year, Multi-Disciplinary Research Agreement for Renewable Energy to Pioneer the Next Generation of Energy Management
- KPBS: UCSD and Sanyo Sign Energy Research Agreement
- North County Times: UCSD and Sanyo work toward smart grid
- SoCalTech.com: SANYO, UCSD In Research Deal
- Dowser: UC San Diego: A 'living laboratory' for green energy
- Fast Company: The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2010 - Byron Washom
- San Diego Union-Tribune: National ranking has three spots for San Diego
- San Diego Union-Tribune: Latin Americans targeting green energy
- Science Magazine: Climate Change and the Integrity of Science
- Kansas City Star: One winter of heavy snow doesn't fix global warming
- 7th Space Interactive: Substantial action is required to limit the increase of global average temperature to less than 2 degrees C
- Water World: UCSD to Become Testing Ground For Fuel Cell Technology
- College Planning & Management: Learning Green
- Environmental Leader: Envision Solar Targets Parking Lots for Solar Systems
- Campus Technology: Analyzing the Alternatives
- Don at Dawn: Microgrid to deploy at UC San Diego campus
- Tech Pulse 360: The Micro Grid As Smart Grid Of The Future, Sophisticated Software Under Development
- Penn Energy: EDSA, Viridity Energy Announce Ground-Breaking Collaborative
- NBC 7 /39: Campus Goes Dumpster Diving
- 10 News: UCSD Students Dig In Campus Trash To Promote Recycling
- R&D Magazine: Microgrid to deploy at UC San Diego campus
- FreshNews.com: Collaborative Technology Effort for UC San Diego Microgrid Effort
- Greenhoof: Ground-Breaking Collaborative Technology Effort for UC San Diego
- Benzinga: EDSA, Viridity Energy Announces Ground-Breaking Collaborative Technology
- Power Pulse: EDSA, Viridity Energy Announce Technology Collaboration for Microgrid Effort
- Renew Grid: EDSA, Viridity Energy Developing Tech For UC San Diego Microgrid Project
- SmartGrid: EDSA, Viridity Energy Collaborative Technology for UC San Diego Microgrid
- USA Today: Collaborative Technology for UC San Diego Microgrid
- CAD CAM News: Ground-Breaking Collaborative Technology Effort for UC San Diego Microgrid Effort
- Education News: EDSA, Viridity Energy Announce Collaborative Technology for UC San Diego Microgrid
- Sustainable Industries Magazine: Campus Sustainability: Progress and Prognosis
- KPBS: S.D. Colleges Undergo Green Renovation
- Smart Grid News: Smart Grid Technology Companies Sending UC San Diego’s Microgrid to the Head of the Renewables Class
- Yahoo News: Interested in giving green the old college try? Greenopia updates its environmental sustainability ratings of 100 of the largest universities